The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit IGSTK: An Open Source C++ Software Toolkit

Enquobahrie, Andinet; Cheng, Patrick; Gary, Kevin; Ibáñez, Luis; Gobbi, David G.; Lindseth, Frank; Yaniv, Ziv; Aylward, Stephen; Jomier, Julien; Cleary, Kevin

doi:10.1007/s10278-007-9054-3

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“…But also in software development, the public availability of state-of-the-art methods is crucial. Open-Source toolkits for applied research, like the MITK toolkit [125] or the IGSTK toolkit [24], facilitate a rapid application development and contribute to expandability and reusablility of previous work. However, latest software algorithms are only limited available to the public community, today.…”

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Navigation in Endoscopic Soft Tissue Surgery: Perspectives and Limitations

Baumhauer

Feuerstein

Meinzer

et al. 2008

Journal of Endourology

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Abstract-Despite rapid developments in the research areas medical imaging, medical image processing and robotics, the use of computer assistance in surgical routine is still limited to diagnostics, surgical planning, and interventions on mostly rigid structures. In order to establish a computer aided workflow from diagnosis to surgical treatment and follow-up, several proposals for computer assisted soft tissue interventions have been made in recent years. By means of different pre-and intraoperative information sources, like surgical plannings, intraoperative imaging, and tracking devices, surgical navigation systems aim at supporting surgeons in localizing anatomical targets, observing critical structures, and sparing healthy tissue. Current research in particular addresses the problem of organ shift and tissue deformation, and obstacles in communication between navigation system and surgeon.In this article, we review computer assisted navigation systems for soft tissue surgery. We concentrate on approaches which can be applied in endoscopic thoracic and abdominal surgery, as endoscopic surgery has special needs for image guidance due to limitations in perception. Furthermore, this article provides the reader with new trends and technologies in the area of computer assisted surgery. Finally, a balancing of key challenges and possible benefits of endoscopic navigation refines the perspectives of this increasingly important discipline of computer aided medical procedures.

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Section: Navigationmentioning

confidence: 99%

Navigation in Endoscopic Soft Tissue Surgery: Perspectives and Limitations

Baumhauer

Feuerstein

Meinzer

et al. 2008

Journal of Endourology

163

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“…The ToF developments in this area were thus realized as isolated applications due to the lack of a framework for ToF support that allows for fast, simple, and reliable integration into the medical image processing workflow. Available solutions for the support of tracking devices and the development of tracking applications [16,17] do not include control of ToF or range cameras because these devices do not directly provide pose information for the object under observation.…”

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MITK-ToF—Range data within MITK

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With the increased popularity of time-of-flight cameras for intra-operative surface acquisition, integration of range data supports into medical image processing toolkits such as MITK is a necessary step. Handling acquisition of range data from different cameras and processing of the data requires the establishment and use of software design principles that emphasize flexibility, extendibility, robustness, performance, and portability. The open-source toolkit MITK-ToF satisfies these requirements for the image-guided therapy community and was already used in several research projects.

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“…This toolkit is based on open-source standards. IGSTK is a library that provides the basic components for navigation to enable researchers to develop a prototype rapidly and develop new applications for image-guided surgery applications [2,3]. The main components include view, spatial objects, spatial object representations, image readers, registration, tracker components, etc.…”

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Integration of the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) into the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)

Lü

Liang

et al. 2012

J Digit Imaging

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The development cycle of an image-guided surgery navigation system is too long to meet current clinical needs. This paper presents an integrated system developed by the integration of two open-source software (IGSTK and MITK) to shorten the development cycle of the imageguided surgery navigation system and save human resources simultaneously. An image-guided surgery navigation system was established by connecting the two aforementioned open-source software libraries. It used the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK) as a framework providing image processing tools for the image-guided surgery navigation system of medical imaging software with a high degree of interaction and used the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) as a library that provided the basic components of the system for location, tracking, and registration. The electromagnetic tracking device was used to measure the real-time position of surgical tools and fiducials attached to the patient's anatomy. IGSTK was integrated into MITK; at the same time, the compatibility and the stability of this system were emphasized. Experiments showed that an integrated system of the image-guided surgery navigation system could be developed in 2 months. The integration of IGSTK into MITK is feasible. Several techniques for 3D reconstruction, geometric analysis, mesh generation, and surface data analysis for medical image analysis of MITK can connect with the techniques for location, tracking, and registration of IGSTK. This integration of advanced modalities can decrease software development time and emphasize the precision, safety, and robustness of the image-guided surgery navigation system.

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The Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit IGSTK: An Open Source C++ Software Toolkit

Cited by 84 publications

References 7 publications

Navigation in Endoscopic Soft Tissue Surgery: Perspectives and Limitations

Navigation in Endoscopic Soft Tissue Surgery: Perspectives and Limitations

MITK-ToF—Range data within MITK

Integration of the Image-Guided Surgery Toolkit (IGSTK) into the Medical Imaging Interaction Toolkit (MITK)

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